During debate on the House floor, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) rose in support for HR 275, the Special Interest Alien Reporting Act of 2025, and denounced Democrats for opposing it.
00:00A member from Louisiana is recognized for five minutes.
00:02Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
00:03Mr. Speaker, what is it that the Democrats don't want the American people to know?
00:09It's a legitimate consideration that the citizenry from sea to shining sea should ask themselves right now,
00:19what exactly is the problem?
00:21They said again and again, oh, DHS could do this if they wanted to.
00:26They already report to us.
00:27Of course, we are exactly saying that the special interest alien data should be reported to Congress along with the rest of the data.
00:38So why would the Democrats, you know, make a big stand?
00:42They're the former chairman of Homeland Security, current ranking member, been on committee for a long time.
00:47They have a rare appearance on the House floor to push back against this.
00:51Think about this, America.
00:52They're pushing back on this because they don't want the citizens of America to know what special interest aliens that participated in suspicious travel patterns
01:10came into our country illegally in 2021, 22, 23, and 24 because you know how many are coming in in 2025?
01:22Zero.
01:23That's how many.
01:25Because we have an executive branch that is enforcing American law since January the 20th of 2025.
01:32So we, the people, demand to know what is the data of special interest aliens, so-called, is a suspicious travel pattern, illegal immigrants coming into our country.
01:50We want to know where did they come from?
01:52How did they get here?
01:53Where were they before?
01:54Or, we want to know all the data that we allegedly collected, Congress has the right to know.
01:59So why would DHS need Congress to codify their authority to give us this data?
02:09Because of activist radical judges that stopped the executive branch, and every day Americans have to read about that garbage.
02:19A radical judge stopping the elected president from performing his role as commander-in-chief and president of the United States.
02:30So the executive branch needs members of Congress to perform like my friend and colleague, Ms. Marjorie Taylor Greene, has done by presenting this law.
02:43I'm a proud original co-sponsor.
02:45However, the president needs this legislation to mitigate against the radical judges that will try to stop him from releasing through Congress to the American people the data from 2021, 22, 23, and 24 of what suspected illegal aliens came into our country that fit this category.
03:07Now, everybody knows across the country, and in this body, most Americans know, I'm very plugged in to law enforcement.
03:15I get calls every day from these guys, boots on the ground, across the country, including deep in federal law enforcement, and they support this law.
03:24So don't tell me that federal law enforcement doesn't want to do this or it's bad for the country in some way.
03:31That's smoke, that's smoke, that's smoke that's being put out by Democrats to protect themselves from the impact of the reveal of the truth of just what kind of people that fit this category were allowed into our country.
03:48Waved in, waved in for four years.
03:51It's been stopped almost immediately in January of this year.
03:54So, I'm clearly in full support of the bill, I'm proud to be an original co-sponsor of the bill, and we're going to see, we're going to bring this bill to the floor, they're going to call for a recorded vote, and I'm glad they will.
04:10I hope you do call for a recorded vote, because I want you on the record, pushing the red button.
04:17I support this bill, and I urge my colleagues to, I yield.
